MIRIAM MAKEBA DIES

Miriam Makeba died this night at Castel Volturno after an anticamorra, anti racists concert in honour of the writer Roberto Saviano, She had a cardiac crisis May her Soul rest in peace. English summary: by Chukbyke Castel Volturno, Miriam Makeba muore dopo il concerto anticamorra CASTEL VOLTURNO (10 novembro) - Miriam Makeba è morta questa notte nella clinica Pineta Grande di Castel Volturno dove era stata trasportata dopo essere stata colta da un malore al termine della sua esibizione al concerto anticamorra e contro il razzismo dedicato allo scrittore Roberto Saviano, tenutosi a Baia Verde di Castel Volturno. L'esibizione e il malore. La cantante sudafricana, 76 anni (era nata a Johannesburg il 4 marzo 1932) si è sentita male dopo essere scesa tra gli applausi dal palco, sul quale aveva cantato scalza per circa mezz'ora, con grande intensità. Miriam Makeba aveva cantato con il suo gruppo di sette musicisti, dopo aver ricevuto dall'assessore Corrado Gabriele una copia in inglese di Gomorra. Dopo l'esibizione ha chiesto una sedia, pensando a un malore passeggero, ma le persone vicine, tra gli altri il nipote Nelson e il manager italiano, hanno subito pensato a qualcosa di serio. Crisi cardiaca. Con una telefonata al 118 è stata fatta giungere sul posto un'autoambulanza, che ha trasferito l'artista nella clinica Pineta Grande di Castel Volturno. I medici hanno riscontrato una crisi cardiaca ed hanno avviato le cure, che sembravano aver dato un buon effetto, tanto che Miriam Makeba sembrava essersi ripresa. Dopo un po', però, è sopraggiunta una seconda e più forte crisi e la cantante è morta. La salma è stata composta nella sala mortuaria della clinica Pineta Grande. Il concerto. L'evento musicale aveva chiuso la tre giorni degli "Stati generali della scuola nel Mezzogiorno", promossa dall'assessorato alla Istruzione della Regione Campania. Il concerto, al quale hanno assistito alcune migliaia di persone, aveva visto le esibizioni di Daniele Sepe e la Brigada internazionale con elementi provenienti da diverse etnie. Poi Sonia Aimy nigeriana che vive a Torino, attrice e cantante di gran voce. Eugenio Bennato aveva scatenato i presenti con la sua musica i 2.000 presenti e prima di lui c'erano stati il jazz di Max Puglia e il sound dei 24 Grana. Non erano mancati momenti di riflessione con letture di brani di Gomorra: applausi per quelli dedicati a don Peppino Diana. http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=34362&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO#commenti

Happy Birthday to our Moderator

Dear Ikenna,Larry & all,

Thank you for the birthday wishes.

My birthday announcement sounded like a 'coded word ' for the victory of Obama, but it was really my birth day.. that of Ndy and St Charles day i.e 4th November. You can imagine there were and still are many things to celebrate.

I am still riding high on Obamas' victory, other celebrations will follow as soon as time permits.

Ikenna, I am flattered by your words.'uno fa quello che può' 0ne does what he can.

Thank you onec more.

Charles

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Dear Charles,

I join the train of congratulations to wish you a wonderful birthday and many wonderful and prosperous years ahead.

L.T.

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To: NIGERIAN_DIASPORA@ yahoogroups. com
From: ikennakelvin@ yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:03:05 -0800
Subject: [NIGERIAN_DIASPORA] Happy Birthday to our Moderator

Dear Charles and all, Sometimes they say age is a question of number but we have very often neglected the fact that in our fast paced world today...everything is reducible to number. Oga Charly has added one to whichever number he had before and it is my pleasure as a friend and a member of this forum to wish him HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MANY RETURNS. I am not given to praises, but praises withheld when they are due is a kind of injustice. Charles has served this community in a way that has actually raised the standard of our communication and relationships in the community and beyond. Through this forum, people have been linked up from many parts of the world. No matter how you think you are getting to receive too much of what is sent, imagine the effort and resilience that goes into making me and you focused on the the real events about us and around us. Oga Charly, if we divide the number of your posts to this forum by the number of your years, i am almost certain that the ratio will show both the mental and physical resources you have put into this among many of your other interesting ventures. I wish you a fulfilling life ahead. It is obvious that your loved ones have contributed immensely and still do contribute to the quality of life you live today. Extend our love and affection to them in the most sincere way and keep the flag flying. It is not for nothing that we call you moderator... you have demonstrated that even though we are in an unfriendly environment like Italy...yet we can...and really yes we can.... History...your birthday and the day the first black man was elected into the white house...is a testimony to the history you can make. Once again...happy birthday and many more years. Ikenna

WHY OBAMA TO USA AND WE BERLOSCONI???

Well well, for foreigner living in Italy today it was a double sweet sensation to see Obama and family greet the nation as the USA President elect.

The joy was general even within the Chines community noted for their withdrawn attitude to things that do not connect them and their business directly. All foreigners found a point of unity in this victory.

The exchange of congratulatory compliments and greetings , feasts , offers of coffees and drinks in bars and pizzerias were fantastic. Every black (even Indians etc) person in the community I live was a toast . I think I have at least a paid coffee in each of the 25 bars in the area I live .
The average Italian was happy because Obama represented hope ; something that is becoming more elusive daily here in Italy. '.......He is handsome, elegant, energetic, intelligent and a new unifying personality a sign of equality, liberty, democracy and freedom that has not been full established for us Italians,,,' said some of the young people I spoke with at work.

Most people liked him "... just because P.M Berlusconi didn't like him...." Berlusconi was the only European Head of state that declared openly his preference for MacCain during the campaign.
Others Italians just didn't care for anything but the fact that someone was able to "...interrupt Bushissmo...." which they feared McCain may have continued to propagate.

Therefore ladies and gentlemen, not every Italian is Silivio or Gasapperi. As usual the politicians here speak and act different from those who elected them.
Click on the links below and read some of their reactions. Our English might not be the best , but it is a part of the fun......

• Italians react to Silvio's color jokes

• PROTESTS AGAINST SILVIO S REMARKS IN ROME
  

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BERLUSCONI & OBAMA 2

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/berlusconi-under-fire-for-obama-joke/

November 6, 2008, 3:39 pm

Berlusconi Under Fire for Obama 'Joke'

By Rachel Donadio

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi did it again.

Meeting in Moscow on Thursday, Mr. Berlusconi told Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that President-elect Barack Obama "has all the qualities to get along well with you: he's young, handsome and suntanned, so I think you can develop a good working relationship."

Italy's leading daily, Corriere della Sera, ran a video of the scene.

The leader of the center-left opposition, Walter Veltroni, said Mr. Berlusconi's remarks "seriously damage the image and dignity of our country on the international scene," Corriere della Sera reported. Mr. Veltroni — who has been called the Obama of Italy, except that he lost the election –­ added that such "cabaret one-liners" showed a "lack of respect" unworthy of a statesman.

He called on Mr. Berlusconi "to offer official apologies."

But Mr. Berlusconi said the remark had been all in fun: "Are there really people who don't understand it was a cute thing to say?" he said, according to Corriere. Adding: "God save us from imbeciles. How can you take such a great compliment negatively?"

Fwd: SILVIO & OBAMA ....1

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi, the idiosyncratic billionaire who has dominated much of Italy's public life since 1994, was elected to a third term as prime minister on April 14, 2008.

Rejecting the sober responsibility of the departing prime minister, Romano Prodi, Italians chose in a moment of national self-doubt a man whose dramas — the clowning and corruption scandals, his rocky relations with his wife and political partners, his growing hairline and ever browner hair — play out very much in public.

Mr. Berlusconi, 71, Italy's third-richest man and owner of media and sports businesses, has survived a number of prosecutions and repeated rejections by voters. But his 2008 campaign was more subdued than his four other runs for national office, a reflection, many experts said, of the deep problems facing Italy, where growth has again dropped nearly to zero.

In this election, his promises were more modest — lowering taxes, cutting government spending and improving the nation's ailing infrastructure — a platform not much different from that of his opponent, Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome and leader of the Democratic Party.

Related: Italy

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/silvio_berlusconi/index.html

Gaffe di Berlusconi: Barack Obama è bello e abbronzato

ALREADY AN UGLY JOKE ON OBAMA FROM PRESIDENT BERLUSCONI

ITALO_NAIJA ..ROME INFO

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